Printer&#39;s apron



1959 E. T. PITCOCK 2,870,447

PRINTER 'S APRON Filed Sept. 11, 1957 EWING I PITCOCK INVENTOR.

BY i g h United States Patent PRINTERS APRON Ewing T. Pitcock, Tacoma, Wash. Application September 11, 1957, Serial No. 683,251 1 Claim. (Cl. 2--51) This invention relates to improvements in aprons generally and more particularly to an apron especially adapted for use by workers in the printing trade.

It is one of the principal objects of the invention to provide an apron of this character having pockets formed thereon for conveniently carrying the tools of the trade and wherein the weight of the apron may be distributed over the shoulders and around the hips and abdominal region of the wearer.

Another object of the invention is to provide an apron of this character which when supported as aforesaid can be drawn as tight as found necessary without stretching the pockets of the garment so as to close the same.

A further object is the provision of an apron which will possess advantages in points of efficiency and durability, is inexpensive to manufacture, and at the same time is simple in construction and operation.

The foregoing and other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front perspective view of the apron constructed in accordance with my invention in applied position.

Figure 2 is a front view on an enlarged scale of the apron as it appears when spread out flat and the fastening means detached from each other.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary edgewise view taken approximately along the line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a rear view of Figure 1.

With continuing reference to the drawing, reference numeral 1 indicates generally an apron preferably made of lightweight durable material such as denim, canvas or the like and comprising an upper portion 2 diverging downwardly from two top corners as shown and integrated with a lower portion 3 of rectangular shape adapted to surround the hips and abdominal region of the wearer.

The upper portion 2 is provided with a pair of crisscrossed shoulder straps 4 and 5 permanently attached at one of their ends to the top corners of the upper portion and interconnected at the back as at 6. The free ends of the shoulder straps are adapted to pass through slide loops 7 secured to the top corners of the bottom portion 3 to thereby snugly position and hold the apron to the body of the wearer by tying the ends of the shoulder straps as at 8.

A pocket panel 10 having a top portion similar in outline to that of the upper portion of the apron is secured by stitching 11 to the upper portion of the apron and further secured thereto by horizontal and vertical stitching 12 to define pockets 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. The bottom portion of the pocket panel is semicircular in shape and to this a matching panel 18 is secured by stitching 19 about its marginal edge and further secured thereto by stitching along involute lines as at 20 and 21 to provide pockets 23 and 24 converging toward the bottom center of the bottom portion of the pocket panel. An intermediate pocket 25 is provided by a horizontal line of stitching extending from the stitching 23 to 24.

The pockets indicated at 13-17 are used for small tools and miscellaneous items such as files, tweezers, pencils and the like. The pockets 23 and 24 are used for such items as a printers rule, chase wrench, name slugs, copy-holding magnets and some miscellaneous items such as paper clips and the like. Another pocket 26 is provided on the right-hand bottom portion of the apron 1 for holding a printers line guage.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that I have provided an apron capable of carrying all of the necessary 1 hand tools and implements of the printers trade, adapted to be comfortably applied to the body of the wearer and wherein those pockets 23 and 24 of the apron carrying the larger tools will always remain open for easy access regardless of the lateral stresses applied to the apron proper when drawn tightly about the wearers body and whereby the tools will remain settled in the bottom of the pockets toward the center of the bottom portion of the pocket panel and thus prevented from falling out during forward bending or stooping movements of the wearer.

While I have shown a particular form of embodiment of my invention I am aware that many minor changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others skilled. in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

A printers apron comprising a unitary apron having an upper portion diverging downwardly from .two top corners and integrated with a rectangular bottom portion having two top corners, a pair of side loops permanently secured at the top corners of said bottom portion, a pair of shoulder straps permanently secured at one of their ends to said top corners of the upper portion and adapted for passage through said side loops for tying therebetween to attach the apron to the body of a wearer, a pocket panel having an upper portion and a semi-circular bottom portion, the upper portion of the pocket panel being similar in outline to the outline of the upper portion of the apron and secured thereto by vertical and horizontal pocket-defining stitching across its top portion and extending downwardly along its sides and terminating at points below said side loops whereby said semi-circular bottom portion of the pocket panel is detached from the apron, a matching panel secured by stitching about its semi-circular marginal edge to the corresponding edge of the bottom portion of the pocket panel and further secured thereto by stitching along involute lines to provide pockets converging toward the bottom center of the bottom portion of the pocket panel whereby tools carried within the converging pockets will remain settled toward said bottom center and thereby prevented from falling out during forward bending movements of the wearer.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,411,562 Christian Apr. 4, 1922 1,538,982 Glover May 26, 1925 FOREIGN PATENTS 404,873 Great Britain Jan. 25, 1934 

